Global population and reproductive health issues have been a cornerstone of CCMC's work for more than a decade. In 1993, we launched a multi-year advocacy and media campaign to help build a new consensus among international policymakers and opinion leaders. The goal: promotion of the need for a coherent global approach to the dilemmas of investment and policy choice that surrounded population, women's rights and reproductive health. Our collaborators have included UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, other U.N. agencies, foundations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world, demographers, academic researchers, economists, family planning providers, women's rights activists, religious groups, environmentalists and journalists' organizations. Over the past 10 years, we have worked to achieve broad improvements in reproductive health outcomes through:
- Increasing access to services;
- Promoting policy changes;
- Mobilizing resources; and
- Empowering women and their families.
At a global level, the Programme of Action that was agreed upon both at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD/PoA) and in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000 have provided a roadmap with a 2015 deadline. Both put the concepts of human rights and voluntary choice at the center of population policy, signaling the end of control or coercion.
Our program uses strategic communications to generate media attention and a supportive public climate for family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide.
Women Deliver
www.womendeliver.org
In October 2007 at the seminal Women Deliver conference in London, nearly 2,000 advocates, researchers, policymakers and global leaders from 115 countries put the world on notice that over 500,000 maternal deaths globally each year is unacceptable, and that action must be taken. Today, Women Deliver is an ongoing initiative that promotes and advances maternal and newborn health as a core element of the global development agenda that will enable achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5 by 2015. Women Deliver is a primary source for advocacy and action using state-of-the-art interactive information technology, skills-building workshops, and networking to support a broad, multi-sectoral community of maternal and newborn health advocates.
PLANetWIRE.org
www.planetwire.org
PLANetWIRE.org is an online newsroom targeting journalists who want the latest information about international family planning and reproductive health and rights, maternal health, equality in education, women's empowerment, youth participation and population. The site provides reporters with story ideas, facts and figures, expert spokespeople, and background and insights on these complex issues from the organizations and governments involved. News items that other media outlets are sometimes reluctant to cover are emailed to subscribers routinely, and the site receives thousands of unique visitors each month.
The PUSH Journal
www.PUSHJournal.org
Each weekday, the Periodic Updates on Sexual and Reproductive Health (PUSH) Journal emails full-text articles from LexisNexis on global population, reproductive health and related issues from more than 32,000 news outlets around the world. For many of the journalists, who tailor their new feeds based on their topic and geographic preferences when they subscribe to PUSH, both access speed and duration are limited. Sending full-text news in this way broadens the editorial universe and enhances their knowledge and perspective. PUSH adds no text or commentary.